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       <h2>What is Open Assembly?</h2>

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        <p>OpenAssembly is a non-partisan site that looks to revolutionize the collaborative power of the internet. OA allows users to brainstorm in a democratic platform, argue the ideal course of action, and reach consensus on those actions. </p>

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        <li><b> Discuss and Debate:</b> OpenAssembly features a forum where you can discuss issues that are of interest to you and deliberate over the pros and cons of those issues </li>

        <li><b>Vote:</b> Express yourself by declaring both your subjective agreement on an idea and your opinion on the objective quality. No longer must you upvote a poorly written idea that you agree with.

        <li><b> Gain Reputation in the Community: </b> Earn badges and reputation as a master of political argumentation or a creative problem solver.</li>

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        <h3>Projects Underway:</h3>
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        <li class="inner"><b>Occupy The Internet:</b> The General Assembly meets Open Assembly. The Occupy Movement desperately needs an advanced decision forum to identify goals and actions nationally. If it cannot identify unifying issues, the movement risks fracturing apart. Open Assembly is an open source project dedicated to
        direct democracy efforts.
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        <li class="inner"><b> Tulsa Film Genome Project:</b> Join the collaborative film today! Using the crowdsourced ideas of the masses and number crunching capabilities of machines we are developing an <i> evolutionary documentary </i>. Your votes alone drive the evolution of this film, so join us in the first ever evolutionary crowdsourced documentary!
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        <li class="inner"><b> Online Government Experiment:</b> Open Assembly looks to change the way we discuss politics and organize online. Using OA we can create a knowledgebase of political ideas and activities that are honed through deliberation and voting. With the help of our AI overlords, we can determine the most important policies of the community and work together to make a difference.
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        <h2>On the Horizon.</h2>
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        <li><b>Discovery:</b> Our adaptive platform learns your preferences to improve your experience. Each user is assigned a personalized representative that finds content you would be interested in, helps you find interesting people to connect with, and allows for detailed analysis of the opinions in the community.</li>

        <li><b> Organize:</b> Join coalitions of citizens that focus on issues you are most passionate about. Attend events or actions with other users to influence the real world. Photos and reputation reports will confirm your activism and persuade others to trust you. Only through trust can we ensure cooperation! </li>

        <li><b> Trusted and Secure:</b> OpenAssembly will features state-of-the-art reputation systems and trust networks. These will prevent malicious users from distorting the results of voting. Permissions layers protect trusted users when political strategy cannot be public.</li>
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       <h2>Who's Behind Open Assembly?</h2>

       <p>Open Assembly is developed by founder fragro[at]gmail[dot]com and with the help of the open source community. Support for Open Assembly is funded by the National Science Foundation GRFP and the University of Tulsa. Design by <a href="http://pressedweb.com/">PressedWeb</a>.</p>

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<a href="http://www.utulsa.edu"><img style="margin-left:20%;" src="/static/img/TU.gif"></a><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201"><img style="margin-left:20%;" src="/static/img/nsf.jpg"></a>

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 We would appreciate support from developers, web designers or graphic designers. OpenAssembly is located on <a href="http://openassemblycode.org">openassemblycode</a> and licensed under New BSD. The site runs on <a href="http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-nonrel">Django-nonrel</a> and Google App Engine. 
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